cutting.wordpress.com
Some early Avro benchmarks | Free Search
https://cutting.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/some-early-avro-bencharks
Ramblings about Lucene, Nutch, Hadoop and other stuff. Laquo; Hadoop Sorts a Petabyte. Some early Avro benchmarks. Is my current project. It’s a slightly different take on data serialization. Most data serialization systems, like Thrift and Protocol Buffers, rely on code generation, which can be awkward with dynamic languages and datasets. For example, many folks write MapReduce programs in languages like Pig. Using Avro, and the initial results. Feed You can leave a response. From your own site. Inducti...
markbaker.ca
Web Things, by Mark BakerOpera and WebKit - Web Things, by Mark Baker
http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/04/opera-and-webkit/comment-page-1
Web Things, by Mark Baker. Opera’s surely been feeling the heat from WebKit. Given that it’s basically taking over the world. Including mobile. So here’s a thought: why don’t they abandon their own rendering engine, Presto. Then instead of being “that other browser”, which developers are loathe to bother testing for, they’d be the best (from what I’ve heard of Safari) WebKit based browser out there. Seems a no-brainer to me. WAP-think invades Mobile Web 2.0. Google Gears: too much interface? You predicte...
tbray.org
ongoing by Tim Bray · Slow REST
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/07/02/Slow-REST
We’re working on a fairly substantial revision of the Sun Cloud API. Motivated by this problem: In a RESTful context, how do you handle state-changing operations (POST, PUT, DELETE) which have substantial and unpredictable latency? The idiom we’d been using so far was along these lines:. As with both AtomPub and Rails, when you want to create something new you POST it to a collection of some sort and the server comes back with “201 Created” and the URI of the new object. There are a few points that are s...
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